Monday DE: The naming of cats is a difficult matter

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So I've been re-reading Chris Wooding's Poison, a meta-tastic fantasy story set in a world where children choose their own names when they come of age. The protagonist, primarily out of stubbornness and a desire to spite her stepmother, names herself Poison. So -

If your pup had a different name to the one they have, or if they had to pick their own name, what would it be?